Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue Bussing...
...TIME's crusty, embittered obituary on Fifth Avenue's open buses [TIME, Dec. 30]. Thousands of New Yorkers, as well as visitors, will find their eyes glistening with nostalgia as these wonderful old carriers trundle off to the Old Bus Cemetery. Where else could you have so many
...base predictions, and Saturday night's Cornell game will be an excellent start. It seems safe to assume that the Varsity has too much strength for Yale and Columbia, but the other clubs in the league should provide stiffer competition. Harvard could conceivably finish anywhere from first to fifth, but they will have to play consistently high grade basketball to push Penn and Cornell for the crown...
...next two sets (6-1, 6-2), Schroeder's all-out attack made Bromwich look almost helpless, but the pace was telling on himself. He let Bromwich win the fourth set, and tire himself doing it, while he got back strength and wind. The final, fifth set Schroeder won easily. The stunned Australian crowd, after seeing its own star beaten, cheered Schroeder for five minutes...
...many a bruised New Yorker, the Fifth Avenue bus has represented the apogee of progress, the point beyond which even Western Civilization could not go. But last week they knew better. Open-topped buses (from which it was sometimes possible to catch a few breaths of air only mildly tinctured with exhaust fumes) were being removed from service. Other double-deckers were being made into one-man conveyances-drivers would have to make change as well as buck traffic, and could be expected to get more apoplectic. And new, elongated single-decked buses were being introduced, thus forcing passengers...